How do you raid?

[Killing_Killing]

I have 7 melee dwarves currently in my third year and since nothing has attacked me yet I'd like to go pillage from other civilisations. Do I just select some of the dwarves and send them to another map tile? And do they also have forts or structures like my dwarves that I can pillage? Should I be expecting a defense system with ballistas and traps? Where do elves and goblins live for example?

Also, I heard melee dwarves can't kill everything as some enemies are very strong against melee. Should I make crossbows too? I heard there was a bug with those

[GrimdarkOG]

Press the map button (world) on the bottom right. then you pick a place and click it and select what kind of mission and assign a squad.

Pretty pointless to send out 7. They'll die. Most civilizations are about 50-10,000 people. So. But, yknow whatever.

You don't actually get to interact or see anything. They leave, they do it, they return, they submit a report. You read it. They bring back the loot.

Crossbows are good but hard to set up. But one squad is good to have. Because some things cannot be approached by melee close enough to get hit.

[Killing_Killing]

Oh what you can't see them fighting? But I saw them fight dragons and stuff

I want to see them kill things

[GrimdarkOG]

Originally posted by Killing_Killing:

Oh what you can't see them fighting? But I saw them fight dragons and stuff

I want to see them kill things

You can see stuff at your fort but not on the world.

Unfortunately if you tried to witness a fight of 100 dwarves vs 7000 goblins and beak dogs your computer would commit sudoku on the spot

[Killing_Killing]

Ah, so you're saying I can only see them do things on the home tile?

What about migrating to a different tile to build a 2nd fort though? Or just to explore some other area; is that not an option?

[GrimdarkOG]

Originally posted by Killing_Killing:

Ah, so you're saying I can only see them do things on the home tile?

What about migrating to a different tile to build a 2nd fort though? Or just to explore some other area; is that not an option?

Yes.

You can set up other civs as a result of a raid, but you don't interact with them they're autonomous.

You will never visually see another area but your embark site

[Sudo Modding]

Exploring the world with 1 guy/a team exists in the classic version, but it's not in the steam version yet.
In the classic version, it works by retiring the fort, then starting adventure mod, then retiring your adventurers in your fort.
Some unexpected things can happen though.